Initiated by the prestigious Stanford University (USA) in 2001, Folding@home is one of the largest distributed computing projects in the world.

Typically, researchers will need a supercomputer to perform simulations and calculate the behavior of proteins.

In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic spreading rapidly globally, the Folding@home project recently announced its participation in the `race` to learn about this new virus.

Folding@Home’s call was immediately enthusiastically responded.

With such a large number of users, Folding@home is now capable of achieving incredibly distributed computing performance, up to 470 petaFLOPS, equivalent to the power of 27.4 million CPU/GPU combined.

Even Folding@home’s computing power is 2 times faster than Summit – the most powerful supercomputer in the world today with computing performance of 149 PetaFLOPS, equipped with 220800 CPU cores, 188416000 CUDA cores, 9.2PB RAM

Technology experts assess that the increasing number of people participating in the Folding@Home project has opened a new ray of hope for the world, in the context that we have not yet researched a specific vaccine against HIV.

Accordingly, users only need to download a file called FAH created by scientists of the Folding@home project.